israel carries out attacks on the media center for the second consecutive day as the death toll on one palestinian doubles in the last twenty four hours. and israel could be just hours away from a gaza ground invasion having issued a milestone with a six point ultimatum in order to a bird and land war also. there's a whole raft of legislation which stops to sell you what you believe if we don't have freedom of speech and the brits are fined for their right to protest as a public order act and aims to outlaw even the most harmless of insults regardless of whether anyone is a real pain. doesn't state funding three international space station

crew members touched down in the snowy lands of has it started on trial between. months. it's seven pm here in moscow you're live with r.t. israeli missiles have hit a media complex in gaza for a second time at least two people are reported killed in the attack and the area is now covered by dense smoke while we crossing live to harry fear in gaza for more details on the story. ride to end the bloodshed could yet worsen as israel warns that hours are not days before it intensifies attacks on gaza the state is using thirty six hour ultimatum demanding that hamas are stops firing rockets into israeli territory meanwhile the palestinian faction has agreed to

unite with rival party fatah in the face of the escalating israeli threat r.t. policy or brings us more from tel aviv. those are the most ominous words we've heard so far that do suggest that the possibility of some kind of ground offensive could be imminent when we talk about the effects of what has been happening since wednesday when israeli civilians have so far been killed rashmi around a dozen have been injured people have been talking about an imminent ground offensive since wednesday we know that roughly seventy five thousand reserve soldiers have been called up they and the regular army have been massing along the israel gaza border we have seen their movement of tanks and armored personnel vehicles for days now this certainly is a sense particularly because the army has closed all roads around gaza that there is something on the go there have also been four straight days of rockets being fired into tel aviv speaking to people here in tel aviv something has shifted i'm hearing more and more israelis say that they are supporting

a ground offensive that they believe it's the only one and only way that militants in gaza can once and for all be dealt with the problem though is that tel aviv is widely aware that if infected launches such an offensive it will lose international sympathy it's heard these warnings particularly from the government of the u.k. but israel is relying on the united states as it has in the past to back it up we're also hearing more and more many israelis voiced the opinion that they believe that gaza is on not innocent and this comes from the point of view that we're looking at a rising civilian death count in gaza what i'm hearing israelis tell me is that it is gazans that you make to the hamas government and as a result they want to know the consequences this is almost a justification for the israeli army getting a long so frequently in what it says ought targeted killings that in fact when it lands uprooting and killing civilians archie crews in gaza visited some of the places devastated by israeli a raise and

a pillar of shelling speaking to those who have seen their homes destroyed. had to we were safely sitting inside our houses and all of a sudden rockets and bombs fell upon us from everywhere children woman an old man with terrified the picture says it all you can see the destruction we tell the whole world no place is safe here in gaza houses a target our playgrounds a target that the situation is horrific. you just saw yesterday just after midnight something unimaginable happened i only saw windows glass and shells flying here and there the houses around the were destroyed and the sole target of the house identical to this one followed by the destruction of ten other homes what for i don't understand that house is empty there is no one living there and they know that. there's a lesson from the palestinian center for human rights says a ground invasion is a terrifying prospect for those who remember the israeli offensive four years ago.

there is widespread fear among the among the people here the prospect of a ground invasion is really very frightening for people because it's inevitable that the civilian casualties will rise rapidly if that occurs and people here are still traumatized by the memory of operation cast lead which happened less than four years ago in which more than eleven hundred civilians lost their lives and many many thousands more were injured humanitarian crisis is imminent in relation to the hospitals and the supplies that they have i visited as chief of hospital on thursday which i from day of. this current escalation and spoke with the director general of the hospital there and he advised me that they. are sorry. to interrupt there on an ongoing basis. that. they are always short of regular medical supplies but now because the situation has worsened their lack

and lacking in such basic supplies that antibiotics i.v. fluids. very basic medical supplies that they require in order to keep this we're. looking after the palestinian people who are being brought in continually injuries and severely severely wounded so their situation is very grim in relation to the hospitals. as a civilian death toll surges criticism of israel what many see as a disproportionate response but israeli foreign ministry spokesperson lawn a stein says that israel want to apologize for doing what it says is necessary. we are doing everything possible to target only the hamas leader and their bases this is what we're doing i don't think you expect me to apologize for the fact that we are taking care of our civilians unfortunately hamas is using children on both sides on their side they are using their children their own families as human

shields they are hiding behind them they're hiding in hospitals in mosques they are using their own schools and we don't i would ask these people to ask the hamas why in the first place are they shooting at israel what is their goal what is their aim they have their own self governance they had elections why do they why did they do this why are they doing this past few years. right for more now we're crossing over to gaza where we're going to be speaking to harry fear losing gaza right now harry the attack comes just a day off to six people were injured in a previous airstrike on the building of the media center what details do you have on this latest strike. well the building the building which roughly translates as the shut sunshine tower is home to various media organizations and i.c.t. organizations here in the gaza strip it's known as large as one of the two most principal buildings for this respect it was hit at the weekend already once and

today just in the last two hours it's been hit a second time the building caught flames as israel tried to target one of the i.c.t. floors there providing i.c.t. services as a result of this three palestinians were injured including one whose body was totally banned two palestinians were killed in that strike from an israeli point of view that collateral damages they were not directly targeted we're hearing too many instances of collateral damage just today in the last while we've heard of the total destruction of the palestine stadium israel which is a football stadium here in central gaza city we also heard of israel targeting the ministry of youth and sport here in gaza today in the last ninety minutes another child has been killed so the collateral damage toll is going up steadily and what is striking here in gaza is that the number of innocents being killed particularly children and women is of such a high proportion the report says that every second victim of israeli attacks is

a civilian have you witness anything that supports this oh yes the hospitals here and the medical professors except for the ministry of health is saying that eighty percent more than eighty percent of those being arrived injured through the hospitals here are civilians the overwhelming majority of those women and children . know what the situation like right now. well the building is on flames and it looks like it's going to burn to the ground unless the civil services can sort out who was seriously injured without without those burning reports is being treated in a hospital the biggest and strongest hospital here in the gaza strip that is a hospital which is already stated for the last few days it has a critical under-supply of medicine so we won't know what happens to that man but you know the injured arriving in all of the hospitals around the gaza strip in the

last two hours as airstrikes are flicked in all of the gaza strip all of the usual places that have been hit over the last few days the situation is very critical in these last moments where if you're reporting live for us in gaza do stay safe right earlier i spoke to age a ruse a limb based analyst nathan thrall who's a from the middle east program of the international crisis group he says even if a cease fire is achieved it will be fragile at best i think it's extremely likely that if a cease fire is reached right now and the terms are the kind that have been discussed so frequently which is essentially calm for. the same kind of cease fire that has been brokered repeatedly in the last couple of years. then that of course it is not sustainable and it will be broken just as the previous ones had and egypt and the u.s. and israel and hamas everyone will find themselves in this situation again very shortly

. this latest outburst of violence in the holy land hasn't left to many on the sidelines and already. this morning protests worldwide activists and demonstrators in a number of countries have rallied to quiet the depths and demand an immediate end to the fighting. plus a russia pledges to raise the latest guns offensive at the u.n. official and public reaction and ongoing coverage of the situation both in israel and gaza and i website right now. i'll be back with other news in a couple of minutes to stay with us. a

sacred place rising out of the waters of the lake the long ministry is home to one hundred fifty orthodox monks mostly younger than thirty five and they've come from many different places and backgrounds to live in isolation here spiritual life it takes up many hours on the road to becoming a monk requires both hard work and religious telly cation. say wants to become and has come as part of this preparation. however these beasts as a musical company. they can remember sound sequences you know they react to the sound signals the sluice the herders had in the old days they needed them it wasn't just fun but these matters didn't come naturally requiring decades of composting to bring the soil up to farming standard this island is mostly rock. the soil

here is very thin on the monks can't just get more of it because they're surrounded by the lake so they have to work very hard in order to provide whatever food they need. they grow their own crops found their own fish and repair their own churches . but the central purpose of the land has always been religious the main ministry surrounded by smaller primaries spread through the many archipelago the monks here know their existence is a little different from that of other ministries here we are out of the way and we do have. bill creams and sometimes tourists as well but always. tranquility this is hardly. the. distant combination of high religion and down to earth hard work that motivates these men.

this is our chief foreign news and a world comment and alice's when it comes to speaking their minds the british are finding it harder than ever to voice their opinions a campaign to overturn a stifling public order act is heating up with critics saying it denies people their basic rights of free speech artists are for it reports. prints are renowned for their sarcastic sense of humor and here in this country we love a good provoking to debate so you would think that free speech to be protected and we'd be able to sell our opinions from the very tops right. there's a whole raft of legislation which stops you so you know what you believe it we

don't have freedom of speech anymore and one piece of blue in particular is is she section five of the public order act one is to close this causing big problems with a slower has been used for two particular ways firstly to stifle inconvenient political views so views which are against islam against christianity which are against the equality of homosexuals so people who say that sort of stuff can be arrested the second way it's been used by the police. to arrest you if everything else fails they see being caught house includes someone who insulted scientology by calling it a dangerous cult and wait for it someone who called the police. and the six hundred five of the public order there's no requirement to praise that the person intended any negative consequences from something they said oh did i only have to be likely to have caused offense so i could be prosecuted for saying or

doing something even if no one was actually offended but the who's probably got over it pretty quickly these on the receiving end of this law have had to live with the consequences or try to court cases many of which are eventually thrown out of appeal before costing the taxpayer a pretty penny i've been a victim to. protest against islamist extremists who are advocating killing gay people and women have sex outside of marriage i was prosecuted for this alleged crime. really in a free society insults are not nice but they shouldn't be criminal offenses when it comes to defending free speech many feel what we're actually talking about is protecting our right with a. yes and so democracy your sense of democracy some people wandering around certain property bombings property bombings and smiling at one another it's about informed debate about a whole range of issues should be off limits be increasingly bizarre cases where the section five bills being these thirty huge public outcry the campaign to get

the law changed. whether it hurts people or it is soul speedball speech must be free is the fact that so many people in this country believe that what we see in such a fierce fight defending our rights to say whatever we want whenever the we want to serve arty london. and other world news the congolese government have rejected a rebel ultimatum to start direct talks within twenty four hours militant group is demanding that eastern city of goma be demilitarized otherwise threatened to take it by force there massed on the outskirts of the city despite efforts by un peacekeepers and government troops to halt their progress an official spokesperson has accused neighboring rwanda of supporting the rebels meanwhile civilians have joined feeing government forces as international community voices deep concern about the fighting. nato will assist in any way necessary in protecting turkey's border with syria according to the secretary general of the

alliance is expected to request patriot missiles in order to bolster anti aircraft defenses the turkish government has been in intense talks with nato after a number of syrian shells landed in its territory the united states of the netherlands and germany are the only countries able to supply the necessary missiles. barack obama is in cambodia for the final leg of his top aides or earlier he became the first serving u.s. president to visit my mother who is in political reform there but insisting the country still has much further to go some experts have suggested torah is part of america's attempts to wrestle influence in the region away from china relationship between the two superpowers is up for discussion in peter lavelle's cross-talk program coming up in about fifteen minutes here on our team. for the time being still washington is putting a lot of. for to reassure china it is not trying to do religious growth but to some

degree control it to make it manageable yes the united states is reassuring china but if there is a domestic opposition in china similar to what happened in iran in two thousand and nine or what happened in syria or what happened in china in one nine hundred eighty nine with tiananmen you'll see that the whole western media and the us government turned suddenly sharply to support that opposition against the chinese communist party that's an underlying part of the politics and i think the chinese government knows that. three crew members from the international space station have successfully returned to spending four months in space r.t. some thomas reports. but i can say that i'm a zero five am has landed safely and it has brought with it the expedition thirty three crew with them sunny williams from the usa. from japan and yuri malenchenko from russia. making it from space to earth is an exact science but it's

never routine in fact let me tell you a little bit about what happened the undocked about two thousand and six moscow time fire the rockets at four fifty eight which brought in nearly just under an hour long process of fall to the earth through the atmosphere from about sixty three miles in above the earth's surface in a rare pre-dawn in the dark a landing in the. step where it's extremely cold and there is snow on the ground and that landing happened at about five fifty three moscow time now what happens is when that capsule hits the ground it launches a series of ground vehicles about twelve helicopters and three fixed wing aircraft that go looking for the crew they have now been recovered and are safely back and earth after one hundred twenty seven days in space well in space they did educational as well as scientific and medical experiments they even did maintenance

on what is space aquarium with actual fish in space and they docked with a commercial spacecraft as well as performed at three different spacewalks so never a dull moment always something to do up there in space at the international space station. it seems that in some parts of america obama supporters aren't considered responsible enough to inquire into these that's the opinion of one gun shop i never banned all democrat very just but my drinking is still. an unexpected discovery in scotland as construction workers in edinburgh on earth a prehistoric house setting light on the lives of their first son.

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been seeing from the streets of canada. china operation to rule the day. most of the. money and technology innovation all the rest of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. it. alone we welcome across town peter lavelle china has successfully transition did fell through another leadership change the last decade has witnessed this country transformed at tremendous speed and become the second largest economic power in the

world what can we expect over the next decade from china many are wary of china's rise the real worry though is how the rest of the world reacts to that problem. and. to cross-town china's new geopolitics in the twenty first century i'm joined by jonathan whole slagged in brussels he is a research fellow at the brussels institute of contemporary china studies in washington we have brian becker he is a national coordinator for the answer coalition and in san francisco we cross to drew gladney he is the president of the pacific basin institute and a professor of anthropology at pomona college i gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want jonathan i'd like to go to you first we have a transition in china a ten year transition now we're going to have another ten years under this leadership what's the difference going to be. well i think essentially it's a choice for continuation we have

a line appear of seven fairly conservative leaders and surely the guys who could really make a change in terms of economic political reforms have been largely sidelined and replace to for example the state council so i think probably we will see more of the same i really don't as this debate a lot of bold and fundamental reforms in this country in the next five or ten years ok brian where do you come in on that ok because you know we've everyone's been watching china china's rise you know when does it arrive. well china has a ways to go in terms of becoming a fully developed country as it itself admits i think that jonathan is right that the leadership chooses to have continuity they want stability they have a clearly defined and highly refined foreign policy which basically suggested what they're mainly concerned about is there a peaceful rise as they describe it but they're trying is under a lot of pressure because you see a growing pressure from the united states in particular from japan and from proxy

governments or governments who may not consider themselves proxies but may ultimately function that way in the asia pacific so what the foreign policy and what china's orientation is will be largely measured by the pressure it comes under and how it reacts to that ok drew that's a very interesting point because everyone's interacting with everyone else there is that is the pacific really prepared for the rise the the rise of china i mean it's the rise of its military as well we have the american pivot there i mean you're just filling up that ocean with a lot more ships a lot more weaponry. well sitting here on the edge of the pacific i think our perspective may be a little bit different than my colleagues. the feeling that china is rising is definitely obvious everywhere you look from the street corners all the chinese newspapers but of course the chinese call this place. old gold mountain so they've seen.